Mark Hamill, also known as Luke Skywalker, also known as The Joker, Fire Lord Ozai, and a hundred various other functions, can currently likewise be recognized formally as The Traveling Dutchman. Today at San Diego Comic Disadvantage, Hamill made a shock look at a SpongeBob SquarePants panel to introduce he would certainly be articulating The Traveling Dutchman in upcoming flick The SpongeBob Film: Look For SquarePants.
Mark Hamill disclosed as articulating the bad guy the Traveling Dutchman in following year’s 4th SpongeBob SquarePants flick. #SDCC pic.twitter.com/S9rC4TEKRA
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Throughout the panel, Hamill showed up onstage along with panel mediator Kel Mitchell (completely Excellent Hamburger outfit), Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Costs Fagerbakke (Patrick), Carolyn Lawrence (Sandy), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward), Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs), Mr. Lawrence (Plankton), Marc Ceccarelli, and Vincent Waller (executive manufacturers). Upon his look, he introduced he would certainly be playing “among one of the most preferred bad guys in the background of SpongeBob” “one of the most fearful goofball pirate you have actually ever before seen.”
Hamill after that joked that this flick would certainly be “much more analytical, much more thoughtful” prior to damaging and stating it would certainly be “motivated stupidity, start-to-finish.”
Hamill has actually made a small look in SpongeBob prior to as one of Mermaid Guy’s arch-nemeses, The Moth, in an episode called Evening Light. The personality shows up a couple of even more times throughout the collection, however Evening Light is Hamill’s only look.
With Hamill playing The Traveling Dutchman, it’s vague what occurred to enduring Dutchman voice star Brian Doyle-Murray. IGN has actually connected to Nickelodeon for remark to find out if this is an irreversible adjustment. Update 4:20 pm PT: Adhering to the information today, “Brian Doyle-Murray” began trending on Twitter, with followers asking why Murray was not repeating his function and revealing problem that the swap to Hamill was done out of a wish to merely cast a celeb.
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Throughout the panel, the SpongeBob actors did a real-time analysis of pilot episode “Assist Desired” consisting of a target market singalong to Tiny Tim’s “Livin’ in the Sunshine, Lovin’ in the Moonlight” that plays in the episode.
Towards completion of the panel in a Q&A, a target market participant informed Hamill that for him and his spouse, “SpongeBob was our Celebrity Wars.” Hamill responded, “And Celebrity Wars was my SpongeBob!”
The SpongeBob Flick: Look for SquarePants will certainly be out on December 19, 2025. You can capture up on every little thing introduced at SDCC 2024 right below.
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